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Thursday, December 11, 2008

DearREADERS,During my break in podcasting DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour, Ol' Myrt here spend six weeks working on a whopping 36 episodes of podcasts for our friends at FHExpos.com. While the interviewees talked about their presentations for the 2008 Mesa Arizona Family History Expo, there is significant content available for these podcasts to be of interest to all genealogists.

Listen by clicking on the links below. Alternately, you may add Family History Expos podcasts to your personal copy of iTunes. You don't need an iPod to listen, just turn up those computer speakers.

Here's the lineup of my 2008 Family History Expos Genealogy Podcast interviews:

Episode 1 - features Holly Hansen, President of FHExpos.com, formerly MyAncestorsFound.com. She discusses the change in emphasis for her company including expanded regional expos, and the role her work plays in educating family historians and featuring experienced presenters and vendors at her events.

Episode 20 – features Kimberly Savage, VP of Family History Expos, to discuss the schedule of presenters, lodging, exhibitors and notable speakers for the 2008 Mesa Arizona Family History Expo.

Episode 21 – features Jean Wilcox Hibben, Ph. D. of www.CircleMending.org to discuss how to make the move from paper to electronic recordkeeping and "Genealogy on Wheels" doing family history research in an RV.

Episode 22 – features Tom Underhill of www.creativecontinuum.com to discuss professional book design, full-color short run publishing, layout & typesetting and 10 things to do with your digital camera.

Episode 23 – features Janene Morgan, from Family History Expos to discuss getting organized from the ground up. (I need this class!)

Episode 24 – features David Graham from www.Ancestry.com to discuss the World Archives Project, Ancestry's new volunteer indexing program.

Episode 28 - features Michael Brubaker, archivist and genealogists at the Atlanta History Center in Georgia. He discusses the prospects of conducting oral history interviews and the use of newspapers in our ancestral quest.

Episode 29 - features Janet Hovorka, MLS from www.GenerationMaps.com to discuss how charting can further your research and a bit about computer file management.